AFTER PARIS: POLITICS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND LABOUR

Woodsworth College, Kruger Hall. 119 St. George St, (south of Bloor, east side)

An International Panel organised by Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change, and Work in a Warming World research programmes, York University.

Speakers:

Roger Cox, Paulussen Advocaten, Netherlands

Larry Brown, National Union of Public and General Employees

Bruce Campbell, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Gordon Laxer, University of Alberta

Warren Mabee, Queen's University

Sarah Pearce, (UNISON), Trades Union Congress (UK)

Josephine Yam, Environmental Law Centre of Alberta

Canada's surprise election of a majority government promising to return Canada to the struggle to slow global warming, puts the federal government front and centre in climate policy, for the first time in years. Elsewhere, legal activism in the Netherlands and Pakistan has forced states to live up to their responsibility to protect their population from the devastation of global warming. Labour-environmental alliances are linking environment and labour law, and crafting collective bargaining ways to reduce GHGs at work. With the Paris talks around the corner, this is a rare moment for strategic creativity.

Co-sponsors:
York University
British Columbia Federation of Labour
Canadian Labour Congress
Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto
Environmental Law Centre of Alberta
National Union of Public and General Employees

The programme is generously supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and York University.